The Simpsons on the iPad

In a development that would make even Comic Book Guy proud, digital comic book platform comiXology is teaming up with Matt Groeningâ€™s Bongo Comics to bring Americaâ€™s favorite family to the iPad. The partners announced the Simpsons Comics app for iOS, available today, at a panel at this weekâ€™s San Diego Comic-Con.

TheÂ iOSÂ app is aÂ free downloadÂ for the iPad and the iPhone and will launch with a selection of digital versions of both recent and classic Bongo titles likeÂ Simpsons Comics,Â Bart SimpsonÂ andÂ Radioactive Man. ComiXology will also give away a digital copy of Simpsons Comics #100 on its website for a limited time to mark the release of the app.

Unfortunately The Simpson’s hasn’t been funny for years. I cringe when they advertise that Concords unfunny appearance on the show.

It’s sad, because some of the old Simpsons are hilarious.

It happened a bit before this, but all of the HD episodes are unfunny. It’s like they’ve been written by the writers of Futurama. Futurama is such a shit unfunny show, I’m not really sure what people see in it.

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To me, Simpsons is the best and most consistent social satire on television. It happens to be in a light funny style. Matt Groening is obviously a brilliant creative mind.

The other thing that knocks me out is that it stays fresh. Year after year, episode after episode, it has bite. I don’t always watch it, as see very little tv.

But I need to know there are extraordinarily clever and gifted people around, to counterbalance the vast heaving swathes of twots.